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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

TODAY'S COMIC: Crabby

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026

this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

trying to de-corpo fully by the end of 2026 has proved incredibly arduous and stressful, and I recommend trying it out just to fully comprehend just how utterly dependant your life has become on them. for people motivated by spite(me) and oppositional defiance, it's very effective. decorpo challenge

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Since rwx bought back Wuxiaworld from Kakao I was holding out hope that the original ComicPanda/tapastic would come back😭💔

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🌿Elaine Tipping🍃 @triaelf9.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"As parent company Kakao pursues a spin-off into Kakao AI and Kakao X, Kakao Entertainment is shifting its global strategy away from directly operating low-margin overseas platforms toward IP utilization" of COURSE these fuckers are going to go into AI of COURSE they are

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neon/nChant joy @neonplnk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

me when i feel my throat beginning to feel scratchy

terrifying t rex behind a wide eyed dog, picture in black and white

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

still working on this massive tech hole I dug myself into but in the interim, trying out various atmosphere/atproto apps and currently enjoying Heron. nice clean simple experience so far and also, a genus of bird i quite like 𓅣

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

that sore throat that makes you narrow your eyes in suspicion 😩

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tigerheron.bsky.social @tigerheron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #EFG, a green heron spotted last week at Sauvie Island. #birds #birdphotography #birding #naturephotography #Oregon #Portland

A small heron with brown neck, slaty green tail, top of head, and back, and yellow beak and eye, walks down a mud-encrusted log, body parallel to log, with large clawed foot raised ready for the next step. Olive green water is in the background.

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I posted this as a reply but in case you miss it: This is a (true) crab, believe it or not! Xenocarcinus tuberculatus. Might be the weirdest shaped crab there is 😱🦀 #Crustmas

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it & to institute new Government Day

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 03/07/2026

"After all, who loves America more than those who have sacrificed so much to make it free?" brb dying my hair red white & blue and running through the streets with sparklers this speech is the good shit. this is a speech for all of us who love the best parts of our fucked up nation

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Happy Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it & to institute new Government's Eve

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/07/2026

🌿📚 More than 64 million pages of biodiversity knowledge are freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. As funding challenges put its future at risk, the Internet Archive is proud to help preserve this invaluable resource. 🌎 Learn more 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I've basically quit getting groceries at Whole Foods for corpo reasons but today had to stop by to check to see if they had an item we can't seem to find anywhere lately (they did not) BUT it was exciting timing bc a promo event was wrapping up & we got a bunch of really high quality free stuff😸

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We call the Fourth of July Independence Day but I honestly think it needs a better name in light of the 250 anniversary? Im partial to the preamble so I think we should call it "the Right of the People to alter or to abolish the government and to institute new Government" day

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I like how my home internet router decides to give up the ghost on the weekend when I actually need it

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

They've established a higher standard for proving discrimination than proving murder. Not only do you have to prove discrimination, but you must prove that no other motive, plausible or not, could have existed in conjunction with discriminatory intent.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

brought my father to the flgs where he casually mentions the war miniature games theyd play in the navy which was the reason he was always bringing me home model kits & also why he introduced me to risk aka my first board game obsession…??? random loredrop on my gaming AND my crafting origin story?

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The giant cancer specialist center here happens to be literally right next door to my favorite board game store so I've ended up amassing a small army of new miniature projects that I told myself I wouldn't…

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Myrmidia @myrmidia.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Despite what a lot of people might think, we ABSOLUTELY remember those who regularly like our art, even those with lots of followers. One time, someone who had never commented but liked every single one of my pieces joined my Discord, and I genuinely had to hold myself back from being too excited.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Really good THREAD of analysis from Prof. @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social on what we’re seeing from this Court.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 25/06/2026

Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. What a sight. [kottke.org]

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2000-Year-Old Roman Amphitheatre Hosts World Cup Watch Party

Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. I don’t know whether Roman rulers, builders, and archite

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 24/06/2026

Also anyone who studies cancer from a public health perspective would immediately make the point that cancer survival stats are dominated by access-to-care equities. Scientific advances will not affect population level statistics without a fucking delivery mechanism. Absolute smoothbrains

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Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern @cri-utsw.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

We already thought @haozhulab.bsky.social hung the (liver-shaped) moon🌙 & now his #relentlessdiscovery is promulgated. Check out Chp 6, "When Our Bodies Autocorrect," p140 to read how somatic mutations could give us "hope." Great topic, @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social! 🧪 Watch out #booktok 🤓

Hao Zhu stands in front of a window holding the book "Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health."

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

ive been in curl up in a ball in a dark corner mood for days now but without any chance to curl up in a ball in a dark corner😔

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This elderly man wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses at the infusion waiting room was also watching yesterday and did a "tch" scoffing sound every time Messi scored so I was in kindred company

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カニの散歩道Crabs' Promenade @crabspromenade.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In honor of Japan's Crab Day, 22nd June, waving crabs, Ilyoplax spp. found in East Asia. #JapaneseCrabDay 6月22日はカニの日、ということで、東アジアで見られるチゴガニ7種盛りでばんざい！チゴレンジャー参上 🦀🦑🧪 #crab #カニ #カニの日

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Is there a substack equivalent for xcancel/nitter

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

havent hit 40 yet but these lwk nailed the mood

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

MARINE ECOLOGIST MONA
KHALIL HAS PASSED AWAY
AFTER SUSTAINING INJURIES IN AN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 19/06/2026

This year is the 50th anniversary of the standalone edition of The Word for World is Forest. This Berkley Medallion edition is from December 1976. Cover art by Richard Powers.

The cover for the 1976 edition of The Word for World is Forest is all shades of green: The author's name is across the top in white, under which smaller text says "author of The Left Hand of Darkness." The book title is a vivid yellow, and under that text says "the mind-stunning science fiction masterpiece." The illustration shows a female fiture with long hair, nude, behind a lot of waving green growths that emanate from a round planet-like shape at the lower right. There are bits of red and yellow mixed in, giving the whole thing a cellular vibe. In the foreground, at the bottom, are green figures, not quite human-like.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19/06/2026

And Rachel. Most enslaved people did not have the opportunity to pull a Rachel, but she sure did, and she went for it. bsky.app/profile/gill...

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19/06/2026

Today I’m remembering the very last people in America to be freed from chattel slavery, who were not the Texans who learned of the Emancipation Proclamation on this day in 1865, but thousands of people in Delaware, Kentucky and New Jersey, who were freed by the 13th six months later.

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

> Greenwater Services ^ what I'd name my front company when I'm an ecoterrorist comic book villain with the goal of returning DC to the True Swamp >:D

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Traffic extremely stupid today because England is playing Croatia at the stadium down the road from where I work and I severely underestimated how early people would be in the area... I just wanted bubble tea for lunch 😭

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

how the cabo verde goalkeeper was moving

A goalkeeper dressed in Bruce Lee enter the dragon jumpsuit standing in goal, labeled Vozinha

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This is actually the perfect metaphor especially if you're deep in the #waroncars lol

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Do NOT listen to Big Shark & @whysharksmatter.bsky.social propaganda🦈 INSTEAD, fill the Reflecting Pool with GARS; they breathe air, live in fresh or saltwater, have armored scales, and poisonous eggs.They’ll keep costs down and Kid Rock out. I have an unbiased, no-bid recommendation for this job.

A fish scientist holds a large Alligator Gar (fish) in a lake.

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Is this a safe space to admit that I kinda like the sickly green algae color of the reflecting pool

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Peter Gould @petergould.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Here's something.... youtu.be/z0rBB93sl58?...

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Know Your Rights!

YouTube video by Saul4Democracy

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Ash on a Star✨️ @ashonastar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This made my stomach literally lurch

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I don't have access past the paywall, but if this is the study I think it is (I heard it at the HistoGenes final conference a while back), it's noteworthy for two cemeteries within spitting distance of one another with the same cultural assemblage and completely differing patterns of ancestry.

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Baby gang-gangs are too much ❤️

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Looking at the illustrations Alice and Martin Provensen did for the Iliad and the Odyssey in 1956 and taking pleasure in noting how diverse they made that world. Everyone bitching about the new movie’s casting is more racist than a children’s book publicist in *1956*

Three Ancient Greek warriors painted in a distinctive mid century modern style, with lots of texture and an earthy color palette. They stand in a row, looking toward the right. One is pale skinned, one has reddish brown skin, and the third has medium brown skin.

Three painted Ancient Greek figures standing in front of a map. One, a dark skinned woman with red hair in what looks like short twists, plays a lyre. Behind her is a pale skinned woman with dark hair looking emotional. Behind her is a dark skinned man with blonde hair and a beard.

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